Dark Law · DL-009
She voted August 1st 2007. The family had owned it 105 years. Murdoch offered $5.1bn.
On August 1, 2007, the Ashford family gathered to vote on the fate of their 105-year-old media company, faced with a $5.1 billion offer. With a proxy in hand, one family member realized that rejecting the offer would mean turning down a financial windfall based on principles not easily translated into wealth.
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